We had a glorious fall day today and went down to the playground to take advantage. Unfortunately, the kids weren't really in it (I know!!) so we decided to play on the beach instead. They had a great time throwing rocks and sand, although someone had to be on Nicolas every second since he has no fear of the water.

Daddy took Nicolas for his turn to walk on the water Eddie is waiting patiently for his turn

Nicolas throwing sand

Eddie thought he would help supervise

Taking a quick break before grabbing Nicolas

The beach had a fantastic sand pile so little Eddie had to try and climb it

He made it!! King of the sand!! Then he says, "Um, how do I get down??"

Me and the babies- before haircuts....

After haircuts, and playing with the millions of ladybugs everywhere!

Eddie liked to let them crawl on his hand, up his arm, and then they would fly away. Nicolas thought this was HILARIOUS!!

Getting another one

Oops! Flew into Nicolas's face!

Eddie is a GREAT ladybug finder :)

Eddie is off to the Reserves this weekend so I tried to make it a little more fun. The weekends are always hard when Daddy is working or away!

Eddie was reading to Nicolas and then Nicolas decided to sit on Eddie and give him a hug and kiss. For dinner we ate at the "restaurant". We had special paper cups and pizza! And candles too, for a minute.
Nicolas is enjoying his letters placemat. He LOVES the ABC's!!

Eddie is showing me where a few states are- here is Washington
And Florida
Time for an appetizer!
Nicolas loves the cool cups with Elmo and Cookie Monster on them!
Time for a movie! Nicolas sat pretty good, up and down a few times but we watched the whole movie.

Goodnight!

Fall Fun!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Apple picking

We had a fun time picking apples yesterday! Actually, little Eddie picked every single apple! He just loves it and he is a great picker. Nicolas even got to pick one! Our homemade apple picker

Reach for the big one!

Eddie was trying to hug Nicolas but he was being difficult

Killing time while Daddy is on the phone

Nicolas can't be bothered by the camera- he is mesmorized with his own apple

Nicolas' turn

So proud of his apples!!

Enjoying the show

Coming down for a safe landing

Showing Nicolas the proper way to poke stuff with a really big stick

On our way home, Eddie is eating one of his prize (and sour!) apples

Family

I have been waiting and waiting for some blue skies to get down to the lake and take some family pictures. So of course this happens Sunday morning an hour before we have to leave for soccer so we rushed down to get a few pics before we had to leave. Got a couple good ones, but we will keep trying. :)

And after pics we headed to little Eddie's soccer game, where he GOT THE FIRST GOAL!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! Go Eddie!!! Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of this :( but he didn't really seem to care.

All the kids running after the ball. Who needs a goalie anyways?

Eddie is getting tired and needs to get a drink

Nicolas is a little monkey. He loves to climb. I figured the day would come when he would start climbing out of the pack-n-play, and that day came yesterday as I was taking a shower. Suddenly I had company in the bathroom and little Eddie came running in after him yelling "He got out! He got out!!"

Afterwards I asked him to show me how he got out. Interesting method.